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Privacy advocates fear sharing confidential information will lead to abuse.
Amid concerns about threats to individual privacy, CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, passed the House of Representatives late last month. The bill aims to enable information sharing between the federal government and the private sector to help stem the rising tide of cybersecurity threats.
Proponents of the legislation — introduced by Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md. — argue that sharing intelligence about hacking attempts and other impending threats to Internet security between the public and private sectors would help diffuse potential threats more quickly, and therefore, more effectively secure networks from attacks.
Some have likened CISPA to the ill-fated anti-piracy legislation called SOPA, which was backed by many big entertainment conglomerates but opposed by Facebook and other large Internet companies. Unlike SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act — which died in Congress earlier this year, CISPA does have the backing of many prominent business and trade organizations, like the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the Internet Security Alliance. A long list of private-sector companies including Facebook, IBM, Symantec and AT&T are also on board.
In a letter sent to Rogers and Ruppersberger, Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy, expressed the company's support for CISPA: "Your legislation removes burdensome rules that currently can inhibit protection of the cyber ecosystem, and helps provide a more established structure for sharing within the cyber community while still respecting the privacy rights and expectations of our users. Through timely sharing of threat information, both public and private entities will be able to more effectively combat malicious activity in cyberspace and protect consumers."
Critics of CISPA include privacy and transparency advocates like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Sunlight Foundation, which argue that the potential for abuse is much too great. In a recent blog post, Sunlight Foundation Policy Director John Wonderlich said, "The bill proposes broad new information collection and sharing powers. ... Even as the bill proposes those powers, it proposes to limit public oversight of this work."
It has been widely reported that President Barack Obama has similar concerns about the bill's insufficient privacy protection, and will veto the bill. CISPA has vocal critics in Congress as well. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) stated during the House deliberations that the law would "waive every single privacy law ever enacted in the name of cybersecurity. Allowing the military and NSA [National Security Agency] to spy on Americans on American soil goes against every principle this country was founded on."
Enhanced privacy protections and more explicit limits on how data is used are being proposed in an attempt to garner the necessary support for passage of CISPA.
According to The Washington Post, Senate leaders prefer a competing piece of legislation that would require electricity companies and other providers of critical services to develop their own standards for cybersecurity, subject to the approval of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The proposed Senate bill also includes language on information sharing. Senate leaders hope the legislation will be considered this month.
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The Score, the Key Stat, the Bottom Line: Action Packed FridayFriday night's action featured several close contests and perhaps the most watched regular season game in NBA history. Here are some things that caught my attention.
The Score: Houston 104, Milwaukee 88
The Key Stat: Perhaps 250 million people in China tuned in to check out the Yao-Yi matchup; Yao Ming finished with 28 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and three blocked shots, while Yi Jianlian had 19 points and nine rebounds.
The Bottom Line: Tracy McGrady had an excellent game (21 points, eight rebounds, eight assists) for the 5-1 Rockets, who have already have posted wins over each of last year's Western Conference finalists, the San Antonio Spurs and the Utah Jazz. If Yao and McGrady stay healthy then Houston is a legitimate championship contender.
The Score: Cleveland 93, Sacramento 91
The Key Stat: LeBron James scored 19 of his 26 points in the second half, including Cleveland's final seven points in the last 1:49.
The Bottom Line: Cleveland's winning formula is simple: defend and rebound every night and rely on James to be the best player on the court most nights. The first two parts of the equation are easy to overlook but they are the reason that this team will be in almost every game at the end, which gives James the opportunity to take over down the stretch. Cleveland held Sacramento to .400 field goal shooting and outrebounded the Kings 49-41. Even though Cleveland also did not shoot well (.380), the Cavaliers kept the game close, enabling James to seize control with one burst. Just as impressive as his late scoring, though, is that James played excellent defense to thwart Kevin Martin's attempt to nail a tying jumper as time ran out.
The Score: Utah 103, Seattle 101
The Key Stat: Kevin Durant finished with 21 points but he shot just 7-21 from the field and had four of his shots blocked. He shot 1-8 from three point range and only had one assist. Durant attempted 103 shots in the first five games of his career, the fifth highest total since the 1976-77 NBA-ABA merger and the ninth highest total of all-time.
The Bottom Line: Durant had a chance to tie the game in the waning seconds but he went up with a soft, double-clutch shot that Andrei Kirilenko swatted away to preserve the win. I have no problem with people praising Durant's brief college career or mentioning that he has a lot of talent but what I don't understand is the rush to crown him as a "sensation" and as a shoo-in to be Rookie of the Year. Why can't we simply let his performance dictate the accolades that he gets instead of writing the storyline before the games are played? Maybe Durant is the best rookie but that is certainly not a slam dunk--which is what he should have tried on the last play, ensuring that he either scored or drew a foul.
The Score: Denver 118, Washington 92
The Key Stat: Denver shot .511 from the field and held Washington to .383 shooting. Gilbert Arenas finished with 18 points, four assists, four steals and four turnovers, shooting 5-13 from the field (including 2-8 from three point range). He had the worst plus/minus score (-16) among Washington's starters.
The Bottom Line: Denver missed three alley-oops in one quarter, committed so many miscues that Coach George Karl quipped that he would mix the game film in with Abbott and Costello outtakes--and the Nuggets still won by 26 points. The Wizards are 0-5, the worst start for the franchise since 1966, when the team was known as the Baltimore Bullets. Washington Coach Eddie Jordan offered this take on the carnage: "We just weren't disciplined. We didn't stay organized. We didn't rebound. We didn't share the ball. We didn't execute. It's one of the most disappointing games I've been involved in." Other than rebounding, every shortcoming that Jordan listed is largely the responsibility of the point guard--the one and only Agent Zero. I realize that Arenas is not completely healthy at the moment but there is a lot of truth to the old school credo that you can play hurt but you can't play injured. If Arenas is just hurting a little, then he needs to stop talking about it and find a way to play better; if he is truly injured to the extent that this is really the best that he can play right now, then maybe he should shut things down until he is healthier. I don't know how badly Arenas is hurt; all I know is that his performance right now is hurting his team.
The Score: L.A. Lakers 107, Minnesota 93
The Key Stat: Lamar Odom had 18 points, 10 rebounds and a game-high +22 plus/minus score in his 2007-08 debut.
The Bottom Line: Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 30 points on 9-19 shooting. He also had seven rebounds, seven assists and four steals. Lakers' big men Andrew Bynum (10 points, 10 rebounds), Chris Mihm (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Ronny Turiaf (11 points, two rebounds, three assists, two blocked shots) had productive games, a crucial element that was missing for the Lakers for most of last season. Derek Fisher (11 points, nine assists) continues to provide steady point guard play. Al Jefferson (24 points, 15 rebounds) was the lone bright spot for the winless Timberwolves.
Labels: Carmelo Anthony, Cleveland Cavaliers, Denver Nuggets, Houston Rockets, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers, LeBron James, Utah Jazz, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian
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- This article is about the boss. For the painting, see The Destroyer (Painting)
The Destroyer is the Hardmode version of the Eater Of Worlds that was added in the 1.1 update. It has a total of 80,000 health spread over 82 segments (including the head and tail segments) and is made of metal, just like Skeletron Prime's head and hands and The Twins. The Destroyer sends out small flying enemies called Probes that shoot lasers at you. The red lights are probes that have not been sent out yet. As probes are ejected, the lights turn off.
The Destroyer, unlike the Eater of Worlds, does not break apart when individual pieces lose all of their HP. Instead, it dies as one entity with loot dropping from the segment closest to the player.
The Destroyer sometimes spawns at night during hardmode, with the message "You feel vibrations coming from deep below..." or "You feel a quaking from deep underground..." appearing the previous dusk.
- Base level, recommended equipment for this fight is Adamantite Armor or Titanium Armor. At least 2 potions of each kind that increase your stats or help you fight (Ironskin Potion, Thorns Potion, Gravitation Potion, Hunter Potion, Swiftness Potion, Shine Potion, Night Owl Potion) and Greater Healing Potions for recovery.
- It is advised to use weapons that can pierce through multiple targets, such as Holy Arrows, Unholy Arrows, Jester Arrows, Flamethrower, the Demon Scythe, or just a broadsword or spear. The Flamethrower is effective because it rapidly inflicts high damage and passes through at least 3 segments per shot. The Magical Harp, Cursed Flames and Golden Shower are also effective against this boss.
- The boss is immune to debuffs, but the probes aren't, so cursed attacks or the Dao of Pow will be very effective on them.
- Much like its lesser form, The Destroyer is not very effective when faced with players on platforms. Making platforms with 15 spaces in between each will ensure the boss itself doesn't reach the player, however, its lasers can still shoot you, and be sure to give yourself plenty of running space, about 80 blocks wide.
- Probes are useful for healing (100% chance of dropping a heart). If you have good defense and ration these hearts, it is possible to win without using any potions.
- It is advised to fight the probes and other projectile shooting monsters such as Gastropods as the lasers combined can finish you off from The Destroyer's attack.
- A Nimbus Rod can be used to deal some extra damage while the player attacks the boss with other weapons, but if used correctly, can take the destroyer down all by itself.
- Recommended accessories for this boss are Star Cloak, Philosopher's Stone, Cross Necklace, Cobalt Shield or their upgrades to increase survivability. For more defense, all accessories should be reforged to Warding.
- Inferno Potions work well at destroying the Probes as soon as they come near the player. Note that, in order to get these potions, one will need the Hotline Fishing Hook, or have found some in Shadow Chests in the Underworld.
- It is recommended that you summon the Destroyer as early as you can in the night as it will flee the battle at dawn. You don't need all the time, just a precaution.
Tanking Methods
The below strategies require that you have a high defense rating (50+), which can be achieved with accessories reforge to warding and Adamantite/Titanium Armor. Additionally, you may also use Nimbus Rod with this setup for extra DPS or a Cobalt Shield for no knockback.
- Simply battle him on the ground, melee him and retreat when your health falls to dangerous levels (it'll take a good while though). Auto-swing weapons like the Cutlass, Phasesaber are the best choice with this method.
- The Fetid Baghnakhs are very useful because they deal huge amounts of damage in short amounts of time (use also an Ironskin Potion and Cobalt, Obsidian or Ankh Shield). Believe it or not, it's faster than the coiling method.
- A flail (ideally, the Dao of Pow) can also be used with this method. Simply use the flail and keep it out, and let the boss run through both you and the flail.
- Death Sickle is also a good choice for this method, as it deals massive DPS against the boss.
- Make a small box and fill it with Spiky Balls so when the destroyer comes, he will deal more damage to himself than you.
- For this method you will need approximately 50-60 armor and the Crystal Storm spell. Create a tower and just stand inside it for the entire battle.
- The Destroyer will pass through you, and you can use the Crystal Storm to deal immense amounts of damage to him really quickly.
- You will likely be heavily harmed, but the probes will die quite quickly and can be relied upon for healing.
- For this method, at the very least, have a Cross Necklace, a phasesaber and about 40 defense. The rest is optional, but consider having melee speed increasing accessories. Make a small box, then summon the Destroyer.
- Immediately take out your phasesaber and hold down the fire button. With the cross necklace, you are invincible longer, and the phase saber hits multiple parts fast. Healing potions are not needed, as you can simply walk to an edge to kill some probes/collect hearts from fallen probes.
Melee 'Pow!' method
For this method, all you need is at least 2 Heart Statues, 1 Meteorite/Hellstone, a few wires, a timer, and a Dao of Pow.
- First, mine one block out from any surface.
- Next, place the Meteorite/Hellstone were you mined that block.
- Then, place down the 2 Heart Statues next to the Meteorite/Hellstone.
- Next, you then mine out another block to set the timer down.
- Connect the timer to the statues with wires.
Finally you just simply grapple onto your fire block and throw down the Dao of Pow and let the Destroyer run through you.
Ranged 'Death From Above' Methods
- You'll need: an Adamantite/Titanium Repeater and/or a Clockwork Assault Rifle, a large number of Hellfire Arrows and/or Crystal/Exploding Bullets, and a few Gravitation Potions.
- Start the battle and fly over The Destroyer, firing away with your ranged weapon of choice.
- A long sky bridge built away from your house with a hole to shoot through would also aid with this method.
- You can also use spells with piercing abilities using this method. Magical Harp, Golden Shower and Demon Scythe are considered good choices. Combining them with a Nimbus Rod will increase your DPS. For best effect, aim the spells so they pass through multiple segments of its body.
- Make a giant ceiling just out of its reach, grapple onto it and shoot it with a powerful weapon such as the Star Cannon or the Hallowed Repeater.
- Instead of grappling, you can drink a Gravitation Potion for ease of maneuverability.
- Laser shooting probes will still be able to reach you with this method; have a plan to deal with them.
- Alternatively, use a Rope line for ease of maneuverability. Allow for possible slips by making 'safety' lines further down.
- With this method, a Nimbus Rod is very helpful, as you can build a sky bridge, make a hole, put in platforms, and the rain will go through, and hit him.
- with the bug of the nimbus rod's rain passing through blocks, placing the cloud on the skybridge with autoswing weapons will make it so easy you can just drink a cup of tea while attacking him.
Explosives Method
Each individual block of Explosives inflicts about 500-800 damage. About 2-3 groups of explosives should be enough to kill the boss.
- Rig up a wire system with Explosives in several groups and a lever.
- Place the clusters of explosives about 15 blocks apart.
- Activate the trap when The Destroyer is crossing them.
Fireworks Method
This method is similar to the Explosives Method, although easier and quite a lot more colorful. Fireworks deal heavy damage to the boss, and because The Destroyer is so long, he should be very easy to hit.
- Buy about 200-300 fireworks from the Party Girl. (any color will do)
- Place all of your fireworks along with a flat piece of land where you wish to fight The Destroyer.
- Summon The Destroyer and let loose all of your fireworks when the boss is above you.
Note: More or less fireworks may be needed depending on how many fireworks hit the boss, but if you do this correctly, the boss goes down relatively quickly and you do not have to use any form of ammunition. Also, the fireworks make the boss kill quite marvelous to look at.
Arena Methods
- Build a room or an arena out of dungeon bricks, buy as many explosives as possible and throw Grenades, Dynamite or Bombs.
- An arena that has several small rooms can prevent The Destroyer from firing lasers at you, effectively reducing taken damage, however, you must still avoid the rest of The Destroyer's body as well.
- You could make a room for the Nurse at the top to help you with healing. Prepare some coins for this
- Note that a Wyvern could spawn and kill the Nurse.
- Any weapon that can bounce off the walls multiple times (Water Bolt, Crystal Storm or Cursed Flames) will be useful with this method.
- Another method is to build a 10x10 square of any material, place spiky ball traps across the top, and use wire to connect them to a 5 second timer. This causes a constant stream of spiky balls inside that square. This strategy requires good defense and a good weapon or spell, at least full hallowed armor and a Cutlass or an equivalent weapon. Stand on top of the "Boss Cruncher" and swing your cutlass. This method should dispatch the boss in a minute or so. This strategy is great for farming Souls of Might and Hallowed Bars.
Coil Method
A method that takes advantage of the Destroyer's unusual spawning tendencies, the coil method is one of the fastest ways to kill the Destroyer in late-game play, when farming for souls and money.
- This strategy takes advantage of the fact that the Destroyer spawns in a single "coil", with half or three-quarters of its body overlapping within a 5-10 block space.
- To begin with, create a thin layer of 10-20 blocks (optional) for the boss to spawn on, positioned a good bit off the ground. The Destroyer tends to spawn on whatever "structure" is closest to the player, but still off-screen, and this will ensure the coil is created above ground.
- Next, position yourself well above the ground. Use any type of Wings to carry yourself up to a platform and summon the boss using a Mechanical Worm. It is recommended for the ground to be well out of your view.
- Finally, fly down to the ground where you created the block layer. If done correctly, you should see the coil of Destroyer parts above ground. Fire at this with a penetrating weapon (Golden Shower, Magical Harp, etc.), and massive damage should ensue.
Cannon Method
A method used to take advantage of the Destroyer`s body length, with each shot dealing a high amount of damage. This strategy is also in version 1.2 or higher.
- This strategy takes advantage of the fact that the Destroyer is really easy to hit.
- First, create 2 or 3 levels of wooden platforms. Then, somewhere near the center on the top level, add a cannon (pointed upwards).
- Then, go to the pirate and buy a lot of cannonballs from him. Also, make sure you have a decent amount of potions and a relatively high defense stat.
- Before summoning the Destroyer with the Mechanical Worm, go to the cannon. Finally, continuously launch cannonballs into the air, and you should easily defeat the Destroyer.
Summoner method
This method includes using summoned minions to aid in the boss fight, spiders to be exact since they are the best obtainable minion before killing any of the mechanical bosses.
- First you will need the Spider Staff and a whole set of Spider Armor. The maximum number of minions used with this setup will be 4. The Queen Spider Staff is optional since the damage done by it is underwhelming and since it despawns after time, it will need to be placed again. This can cause distractions which can cost you health. Place background walls in your arena to allow the spiders to roam free and attack Destroyer with greater efficiency.
- Combining this method with other weapons with high DPS is quite effective.
- If you have defeated the Twins, using an Optic staff helps because of the Piercing damage.
Carpet Bombing Method
This method involves the use of a Daedalus Stormbow and Hellfire Arrows. This is one of the easiest and simplest ways to kill The Destroyer.
- Build a simple yet tall arena for The Destroyer.
- After summoning The Destroyer and buffing yourself (optional), bomb The Destroyer with the Daedalus and Hellfire Arrows as ammunition.
No Arena Method
This method also will require a Daedalus Stormbow and Holy Arrows. This method allows you to defeat the Destroyer in about 1 minute.
- Simply carpet bomb him the bow and the stars will damage him heavily.
- For best results, wear full Titanium Armor, though, Adamantite or Orichalcum are acceptable.
Knife Rain Method
This method works best on a Sky bridge made out of Wood Platforms or similar blocks.
- Weapons needed: Magic Dagger, Nimbus Rod
- Armor Needed: At least Orichalcum Armor
- Potions Recommended:
- Hunter Potion/Night Owl Potion/Shine Potion - will make seeing the Probes less of a problem
- Thorns Potion - The Destroyer and its probes will take damage when they touch the player
- Magic Power Potion - Increases the damage dealt by both the Magic Dagger and the Nimbus Rod
- Mana Regeneration Potion - Increases mana regeneration rate
- Swiftness Potion - Makes avoiding the Destroyer easier
- Regeneration Potion - Increases survivability
- Lifeforce Potion - Increases max life
- Ironskin Potion - Greatly increases survivability
- Greater Healing Potion - A few of these should prevent early death
- Greater Mana Potion - Allows for a more steady stream of Magic Dagger projectiles
- Equipment needed:
- Lightning Boots - Increased movement speed and super fast running
- Sorcerer Emblem - Increased damage from Magic Dagger and Nimbus Rod
- Wings/Jetpack - Enhanced aerial movement
- Ankh Shield - More defense than Obsidian Shield
- Mana Flower - Decreases mana usage and allows for automatic use of the Greater Mana Potions
- Also:
- Heart Statues, Star Statues and Campfires can help out
- Activate the statues using 1 Second Timers.
- Use the potions (except Greater Healing/Mana).
- Summon the Destroyer using a Mechanical Worm.
- Cast the Nimbus Rod twice in separate locations, but close enough that you can see them both on-screen.
- Attack the Probes with the Magic Dagger.
Note: This strategy, if done properly, can defeat the boss in under a minute.
Box Strategy
This strategy relies on the Destroyer not being able to reach the player. The way it works is that the player must build a box high above ground where the Destroyer cannot reach them, leave some gaps, and use whatever weapons they have at their disposal.
This is one of the easiest methods of defeating The Destroyer, though it is recommended that the player be wary of Probes as they can travel through blocks.
- Each segment of The Destroyer contains a red orb. As the segments are damaged, Probes pop out and the red orbs are deactivated. It is necessary to kill these as laser damage is very high. The Destroyer possibly takes increased damage when these orbs are deactivated, and it is most likely to be defeated when all the orbs are deactivated. If all the orbs go out, The Destroyer will be unable to spawn the probes.
- When The Destroyer spawns, it has all of its segments clustered together, similar to other worm enemies. If the player can locate this cluster, they can deal massive damage in seconds with weapons like the Nimbus Rod and Daedalus Stormbow combined.
- The Probes can move through solid blocks, while the lasers cannot.
- If The Destroyer is still alive at sunrise, its speed will increase and then it will flee.
- If The Destroyer is defeated in multiplayer and the server lags, it may cause The Destroyer's head to remain present, and it will continue burrowing and trying to attack the players.
- The Destroyer can be considered the easiest Hard Mode boss. The reason for this is that all that is needed is sound preparation; dexterous maneuvering and even general survivability are not necessarily required.
- The Destroyer has the highest total health of any one mob in the game.
- The Destroyer can spawn naturally at the beginning of any night in Hard Mode. Before it spawns, the message, "You feel vibrations coming from deep below." will shortly be followed by "The Destroyer has awoken!".
- If the player is unlucky, The Destroyer will spawn very early after defeating the Wall of Flesh. Meaning the player is extremely unprepared.
- No matter how far away the player is, the destroyer will always pursue the player and never give up until it is either killed or morning arises. (Needs clarification)
- The highest possible DPS against the Destroyer can be achieved using a Rainbow Gun (preferably reforged to "Mythical") along with damage-boosting accessories (Sorcerer Emblem, Avenger Emblem, Destroyer Emblem, etc.) reforged to "Menacing" or "Lucky".
- The Destroyer is the first Mechanical Boss to have "minions" (Eye of Cthulhu, Wall of Flesh).
- Aside from its inspiration from the Eater of Worlds, it also shares very similar minions and the same boss theme with the Brain of Cthulhu.
- If the Destroyer is summoned when the player is on a Floating Island and the player jumps off, the Destroyer's body will be stuck in one place in the air.
- A bug causes the Destroyer's head to get detached from the body if more than two are spawned at a time.
- Sometimes, The Destroyer will get stuck for a short time for no reason.
- There is a very rare chance that when you summon a Destroyer it may look like an Eater of Worlds. It will still act like the Destroyer and have exactly the same health as the Destroyer.
- Rarely the Destroyer will die and the achievement/trophy will be given "The jungle will grow restless" but no drops will be given.
- On the mobile version, if you fight The Destroyer near the edge of the world and his head goes out of the world, the head will be replaced with the nearest mob. The Destroyer's body will follow the "head" and after a little while, the Destroyer will die with no death message or drops.
- The Destroyer is very long measuring 82 segments long.
Update Info
- Health increased to 80,000.
- All body parts have 20 more damage.
- Body and tail defense are increased by 4/5 respectively.
- Drops now appear at the segment closest to the player instead of the head.
- Now drops the Destroyer Mask.
- Added immunity to all Debuffs.
- No longer spawns during Pumpkin Moon.
- Hallowed Bars added to its drop table.
- Health decreased from 80,000 to 60,000.
- Now drops the Destroyer Trophy.
- Can now spawn randomly at night during Hard Mode.
- Added to the game.


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The Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The architectural designs of both the building and exhibitions are primarily scenographic readings of oil installations in the North Sea and the geology of oil.
The stone clad main building is an interpretation of the Norwegian bedrock where the forces of nature, through hundreds of millions of years, have passed sediment to the North Sea, creating the basis for oil. The exhibition hall resembles a space in the landscape facing the sea where the black slate floors allude to the petrified slate and limestone sediment on the bottom of the North Sea, where raw oil is found in similar types of stone.
Three cylindrical platforms stand in the sea. From the exhibition hall and these cylinders there is a stunning view towards the Stavanger fjord, a wharf for oil rigs, and further towards the North Sea itself. Inland views are of the massive Ryfylke Mountains.
The building is situated in the Stavanger harbor basin close to the historic town center. In contrast to the picturesque wooden houses, the museum is a monumental, organic structure. The main building is like a huge block of stone, while the cylinders in the sea are like ships or platforms at the dock.
Even though the building contrasts with its environs, it has geometric references to buildings in the vicinity, with their long and narrow storehouses. Lines of vision and spatial configurations relating to the town's master plan are preserved.
The museum's skewed angles reflect the silhouettes of the wooden houses. A speedboat terminal close to the plaza in front of the museum, as proposed in the winning scheme, has not yet been built. Until it is, the square seems large and unbounded.
Beyond the collection of artifacts, the museum is an experience in itself. The cylindrical platforms create excitement as one wanders from the check in stairs in the exhibition hall through the cylindrical tube that alludes to a helicopter journey to the North Sea.
The outer cylinder is the life on the platform, with a drilling tower and drilling rod. The inner platform plunges into the water. Audio visual effects and mirrored walls in a 14 meter (42 foot ) high, cubic well imply being at the bottom of the sea. Materials and architecture are closely entwined.
The monolithic main building has an outer shell/casing of dark gray Barents Blue gneiss from Varanger. In some areas, such as the entrance and two staircases, the casing/shell has a wave like form, like a mountain scrubbed by glaciers.
The wave motif is a formal theme that is repeated in the glazed facade of the exhibition hall. Inside the gneiss shell/casing is a construction layer-black, speckled concrete black granite. The entire interior of the main building can be interpreted as a vast cave where the floors are 'decks' with wooden ceilings, while the flooring of the ground floor is black syenite.
The main building is organized around muraled core spaces that house secondary functions. The flooring of the exhibition hall is of black 'Otta' slate, found again in the base of the facade. The hall's ceilings are alu zinc metal sheets.
Parts of the elevations facing the town core are in acid resistant stainless steel sheets suspended like a screen connected to a glass strip at floor level. The gray and black steel clad hall creates a neutral backdrop for exhibitions.
The foundation of one of the three steel cylindrical platforms gave in. This made it necessary to apply a series of unfortunate cross bracing which, hopefully, will be removed soon by redoing foundation work on one of the piles. The elevations of the cylinders are sheets of acid resistant stainless steel sheets with gray lacquered aluminum accents.
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum is the result of an open architectural competition held in 1992. The building was financed by the State, Stavanger municipality, Rogaland County, and private sponsors.


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Speaking on Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery, President Obama says, "But as our service members return, many are discovering a new battlefield as they leave the military and search for civilian employment opportunities." Watch his entire speech.
If the evening commute home from his Texas Army base includes a grocery store stop, National Guard Staff Sgt. Scott Gilbreath will purposely change out of his camo so that, ironically, he can blend with other customers.
"My work clothes are the Army Combat Uniform so I stand out from the crowd in the very clothing designed to hide me," Gilbreath said. "Without fail, (inside the store) will be a well-meaning person — sometimes a sweet grandmother or an older gentleman with his VFW hat on, or sometimes another young man — who will stop and shake my hand and say 'thank you.' I get kind of choked up inside."
He appreciates the warm words yet acknowledges they also give him an awkward sensation, as if the courtesy is a bit misplaced.
"It is hard to pin down why we soldiers have the uncomfortable feeling when someone says 'thank you,' " said Gilbreath, who has served more than 20 years in the Army. "Thank you? For doing the job that we were trained to do?"
On the national holiday reserved to give veterans our most heartfelt and public appreciation, six current and former service members revealed to NBC News that hearing "thank you for your service" routinely leaves them feeling uneasy. Their reasons vary.
One veteran called the comment "off-putting." Two more often wonder if the expression is just a politically correct, rote affirmation — no deeper than "have a nice day" — which, for them, can turn a forthright "thank you" into a "mild irritation," they said. And a fourth veteran, Robert Sanders, who spent time in Afghanistan, says when complete strangers offer ex-military members some blanket gratitude for their service, it "makes us squirm a little."
Sanders used the word "us" because veterans say this slight tinge of disquiet is a prevalent phenomenon throughout the U.S. military and much of the veteran community — a little-discussed fact of life that simply comes with wearing the uniform.
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The country expresses its gratitude for veterans and their service with ceremonies and parades.
"I would say that it's just me, but I've seen and heard the same sentiment from many others," said Sanders, a former Air Force master sergeant. "So maybe it's something in who we are or who the military makes us."
Please don't misunderstand, each of the six veterans say. They are sincerely grateful for your respect. But they're also not sure how to respond. And many feel unsettled by the notion that thousands of their brothers and sisters — in Afghanistan, Iraq and wars before — made the supreme sacrifice. They deserve the "thank yous" but aren't here to accept them.
In contrast to those who didn't come home or who left body parts behind, many veterans and service members believe they haven't done anything extraordinary to earn your individual admiration. They just completed (or are performing) their assigned tasks. They were compensated for the work. In return, some also got college educations plus federal health care and pensions. They've already received what they were due, what they were promised. No "thank yous" are needed, some veterans say.
"I'm no war hero. I did what I was asked to do, but nothing special," said Sgt. First Class Ed Jarveaux. He began his Army career in 1999. He noticed that unsolicited, civilian expressions of gratitude emerged after the 9/11 attacks. He served in the Washington, D.C. area on Sept. 11, 2001 and now is an Army reservist.
"I volunteered. I didn't do it for free," Jarveaux said. Two years ago, after he entered a grocery store in Fairbanks, Alaska, to buy Thanksgiving provisions to cook dinner for some military buddies, a random woman spotted him and told the checkout clerk that she would pay for Jarveaux's purchases. "I thanked her. I'm fairly certain, though, that I was at a higher salary than the woman. This would be, maybe, why I felt a little guilty" about that gesture.
"But it is definitely complex — why we feel this way. There are so many guys who had it a lot harder that me, who made more of a sacrifice. It feels a bit like that 'thank you' belongs to someone else," Jarveaux said. "I've made my peace with the fact that they can't find the wounded warriors or the families of someone who died in service to offer that thank you. So it's my responsibility to accept it graciously."
Spontaneous "thank yous" still take Grant Moon by surprise — and he doesn't startle easily, having spent parts of 2007 and 2008 in Baghdad during a 13-year career as a soldier and captain in the Army National Guard and Army Reserves.
"Fulfilling your duty is unlike a favor, which I think of as deserving a personal thank you," Moon said. "I always appreciate those that take the time to recognize our service, but I never expect it."
In fact, through trial and error, some veterans have spent years crafting a proper, comfortable response. For Jarveaux, his standard reply has become: "Thank you for noticing." But, he added: "I don't want it to be taken as sarcastically, in passing. It is sincere."
Then again, the psychology of this larger unease seems fairly simple to diagnose. These are men and women who willingly sign up to be exhaustively taught and trained to become part of a vast collective, to think of the greater good and the larger mission, to work seamlessly and selflessly with the soldier, sailor, airman and Marine next to them. They see themselves as teammates, not as individual players.
Just listen to Sanders and you'll hear some of that: "I found it of surprising note the first time someone stopped me in the street and thanked me for my service. Even now, just thinking back on that, I feel a flush of being mildly uncomfortable. Not about the job or service, both of which I am very proud, but of being singled out like that. Very few (service members) stay long term for any reason beyond patriotism and a desire to be part of something important and bigger than ourselves."
One of the few moments when many veterans feel fully relaxed with a "thank you" is when someone with a shared experience offers those words.
"Where I've seen it said with real power is among veterans themselves," said Jim Henry, who served as a Navy surface warfare officer from 1979 to 1982. "I attended a reunion of World War II-era veterans from the USS Enterprise recently — aptly nicknamed, 'America's Fightingest Ship of World War II.' They seemed to appreciate hearing, 'Thank you for your service,' but they seemed to appreciate it more from somebody else who served, no matter what era."
And then there are those veterans who feel they should be sharing their own appreciation with us.
Mike Starich served seven years in the Marine Corps as an F-4 Phantom flight officer and as a recruiter. He separated at the rank of captain in 1992, acknowledging that his job brought him "a few near misses (with death) … actually more than a few." He is another who admits "it does make me a bit uncomfortable when folks do that."
"My experience in the Marine Corps and Marine Aviation, the highs and lows, the dangers and the boredom, helped shape who I am today. I view the experience as a gift," Starich said. "In fact, after thinking this through a bit, I believe that it is more truthful to say that I owe the U.S. government and the American people the thanks."
So should we be thanking veterans?
"I think people are doing fine. I think just saying 'thank you' is fine. I guess I wouldn't want it to change at all," Jarveaux said.
Starich, however, suggested some tweaks to the current phraseology of military gratitude.
To current active duty personnel: "Welcome home. How can I help?"
And to veterans long home from duty: "I respect your service. It is meaningful to me ..." Then explain why you feel that way, Starich said. "This will help the veteran feel that it is sincere and honest, not just the politically correct thing to say."
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A basic guide to fish photography.
This is a basic guide to fish photography. I have kept it as simple as I possibly could. I hope some of you get a little help from it.
Step 1 ... Preparing for the session ...
a) First things first. Clean the tank inside and outside as nothing will mess with your pics more than water streaks or algae spots. Your camera will focus on these instead of your subject and your pictures will be distorted.
b) After cleaning the aquarium, let things settle for a few hours until your filter clears any debris that you have disturbed. Floating particles don't look good in your fish pictures.
c) Before taking any pics, turn off any other light sources in the room like lights, tv's etc. Draw the drapes or pull the blinds to exclude any outside light as well. Turn of your filter, this will let things settle in the tank and insure there are little or no unwanted particles floating in the tank.
Step 2 ... Setting the camera ...
Photographing fish is not easy, especially photographing small, fast moving fish. So, it's best to start with basic settings and then get more adventurous once you have mastered those.
The basic settings for fish photography ...
* Flash on
* ISO set to 100/200
* Macro on
* Set on auto
* Image size large
a) If your camera has a flash setting you can reduce it to half power or so. Alternatively, you can diffuse the flash if it is too bright by taping some tissue paper over it loosely as you don't want it over heating. Using the flash enables you to obtain that faster shutter speed to freeze the movement of a fast swimming fish.
b) Using a low ISO will help you get more light on the subject, a higher ISO will make the pictures sharper, but the higher you go the more noise you will get in your pics (your pictures will be grainy). I find the ISO of 100 to be good for fish pics.
c) Switch your macro on, this is usually a small flower symbol on the shooting menu, it will enable you to get close up pics of your fish.
d) Set the camera to auto and let it do the work. When incorporated with the macro feature, your camera will automatically focus on the subject. It's a good idea to set your image size to large, this way you can take a picture from further back, crop the image to get the bit you want and not lose any of the image quality.
Step 3 ... Taking the picture ...
a) Study your fish and get to know their movements and anticipate when they are going to make that turn for the action shot you are after.
b) Focus on a spot in the tank, a rock, plant or a bit of driftwood, half depress the shutter button to auto focus, wait on a fish to swim by and click, you have the shot.
c) Using a tripod ... I don't as a rule use a tripod, except for full tank pics. I find it makes it difficult to track a fish's swimming pattern. Instead find your self a steady base like a table or the back of a chair to rest your arms on and help keep your camera steady.
d) Eliminate flash bounce back ... Never aim you camera straight at the tank as the flash will bounce straight back at you. Instead, hold your camera at a slight angle away from you, this will eliminate the problem.
e) Using the zoom ... Instead of using the zoom on your camera (using the zoom loses some image quality) stand back a little, take the pic, then crop to size required.
f) Remember those settings ... Most fish you'll find will appear better at different settings, so if you hit on a good setting for your favourite fish, write it down for future reference. It's also not a good idea to try to many different settings in one session. Try different settings one at a time and see what works best for you.
g) Finally ... Don't be afraid to take lots of pics--Remember the more you take, the better chance you have of getting those one or two great pics.
h) Using a dark background, blue/black works well, will help your fish stand out more resulting in better pics.
I hope you have got a tip or two from this basic guide to fish photography. Happy snapping and we'll look forward to your fish pics.


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Randy Travis will remain hospitalized for another two or three weeks to recover from his recent heart problems, a stroke and brain surgery, his doctors said Monday (July 15).
According to the singer's fiancée, his condition is "miles beyond where any of us thought he would be a few days ago," but doctors say it will take months to recover from the stroke.
"As events have occurred, it's like putting pieces of a puzzle together," said Dr. Michael Mack, a cardiac surgeon and medical director of cardiovascular disease at the Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System. "It's been much clearer as to what events transpired and what Mr. Travis' medical condition is."
Mack noted that Travis was placed on life support after being admitted the Baylor McKinney medical center's emergency room in McKinney, Texas, on July 7. He was later transferred to Heart Hospital Baylor Plano in Plano, Texas, for additional treatment.
"For the first 48 hours after transfer, he required mechanical devices to support his circulation and his heart," Dr. Mack said. "His heart did respond positively to that, and after a 48-hour period of time, we were able to wean him from that support.
"During this period of time of resuscitation, he suffered a stroke. As a result of that stroke, pressure built up in his brain that required an emergency neurosurgical operation to relieve that pressure."
The surgery, performed Wednesday (July 10), was successful.
"As we're able to put the pieces of the puzzle together, he did suffer an acute viral illness over the past three weeks, but that seems to have tipped over a more chronic condition," the doctor said. "He has what's called idiopathic cardiomyopathy, which means he has scarring of his heart muscle that is causing his heart to be weak and not able to support his circulation without the help of either medical devices of medication."
A biopsy of his heart muscle showed scar tissue but no active infection.
"From the appearance on echocardiograms, which are images of his heart, this is not the appearance of either drugs or alcohol causing the heart condition," Dr. Mack said. "Mr. Travis does have a family history of cardiomyopathy, and it is more likely related to that."
Travis remains in critical condition but has stabilized.
Dr. Gary Erwin, an intensivist at the hospital in Plano, said Travis remains on intravenous medications to help support his heart.
"But we are decreasing the doses of those every day and actually beginning to start him on oral medications which he will use long term to help support his heart," he said. "As a result of his heart condition, acutely, and the stroke, he was put on a ventilator to help him breathe during his hospitalization. He remains on that, but we are decreasing that support daily. He is breathing spontaneously with the help of the ventilator and [we] hope to have him weaned off of that very soon — breathing completely on his own."
Dr. Erwin said Travis' progress is promising.
"In terms of his stroke, he has responded well to the surgical procedure he had to relieve the pressure in his brain," he said. "We're seeing improvements in brain scans showing decreased swelling of his brain. He is awake and alert — interacting with his family and friends and beginning to start doing some early physical therapy.
"We do anticipate that he will need to stay here at the Heart Hospital for another two to three weeks to stabilize his heart during which time we will begin aggressive physical therapy. After he is discharged from here, we anticipate transfer to an inpatient facility where he can receive aggressive physical therapy. We anticipate it will take months to recover from the stroke."
Mary Davis, Travis' fiancée, expressed gratitude for the assistance of the physicians and hospital staff, as well as the fans.
"He feels the hands of the doctors and the care of the nurses and the love of his fans," she said. "His friends and family have all been touched by that. He is responding well to voices, and he sees and he understands. He's miles beyond where any of us thought he would be a few days ago.
"It's heartwarming to see that we have such a strong person under there that's willing to fight with us. We all know now that we had greatness to work with. We ask for your continued support. I know that Randy will be so touched by that when he understands the magnitude of it all."


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Each post this month of April will be a Devotional on the security we have in God. My hope is that God will use these words to encourage you on your daily paths.
Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Hebrews 7:25
It's your turn and all eyes are on you. You fold your hands over your knees, hesitating, wondering, if this small circle of kind people will really accept you. What if they knew? A day has passed since taking that chance, typing that message to someone you respect, that someone you hoped to develop a deeper relationship with, but it is still unanswered. Hurt, you ponder. Maybe he/she no longer likes me? Your hands hesitate over the keyboard, words of encouragement ready to flow, yet question if you qualify to be the messenger. Would they read these words if they knew my past ways?
When Jesus died on the cross He saved us. His presence with God in heaven assures us that he continues to be forgiving of our past, present, and future sins when we come to Him. We can be secure in knowing we are fully accepted by Him, not needing the acceptance of others to be forgiven. We can be assured that even though we feel disappointed, He is always looking out for our best interests. When we live in the grace of Christ we experience the freedom from guilt and failure to do His work. Let's spread this good news by living out the security we have through Him and build His Kingdom as He is calling us to!
I'll be on a blogging break from this place for a month as I dedicate writing time to another project that I think God has placed within me. I'll take this step in faith and know whatever direction it takes me, I will be learning and growing! I will be dropping into your places from time to time, and hope you'll connect with me on Instagram !


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Hi again Steve,
In the PRE book, you write on p.211 that it's possible to completely disable Auto Analysis by the Organizer.
Questions: 1) Is this accomplished by simply unchecking all the boxes under Auto Analyzer Options? 2) If I have a particular song that I like being tracked by the Organizer, and I leave Audio checked, how do I ask the O to look for similar music that the O is tracking -- do I merely select that one song in the O?
While on the topic music: I haven't used iTunes for a while, but in the past when I wanted a desired track to be in the WAV format, I would simply right-click it to convert it and would then have no problem using it in my creations. In other words, I used iTunes to manage ALL my music, including non-copyrighted of non-Apple origin, so I could easily convert it to WAV when I wished to use it in a project.
That prompts yet another music question: If a client has an iTunes song that she purchased from Apple on, say, her iPad, and she wants me to create, say, a slideshow using her music and I do so for a fee, is there any copyright violation?
Thank you.
P.S. You write on p.206 that, under the File menu, one can create multiple Organizer catalogs. I'm thinking of creating one that will consist exclusively of music tracks, another that will consist only of photos, and yet another that will track only videos, as doing seems to me to be a better way of staying, yes, organized.


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hi, anyone knows where to download .bar apps and games for playbook?
i do not have wireless, appworld will therefore not work, and using usb cable to connect to my desktop to try and download does not work either, it tells me to use app world.
please help with links to download .bar files.


text: The Dodge R/T convoy (complete with road grime and dead bugs spattered on the front fascias) rolled into Cumberland Valley Motors last night to be a part of the annual kick-off festivities for the All-Chrysler Nationals. Upon pulling into the jammed parking lot, we were greeted with great examples of Dodge and Plymouth muscle in all shapes and sizes. From high-winding 340 small-blocks to ground pounding big-inch Wedges and HEMIs, the black top was ablaze with high impact colored Barracudas, Challengers,…Read More


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Introduction | Linking | Financing | Successful Strategies
New farmers are quickly becoming a rarity, and these days, it can be hard to get started. Yet exciting opportunities exist in farming and ranching, especially for those who capture the growing consumer interest in healthy food and stewardship of our natural resources. Anyone with interest can become a new farmer - there is no age limit on pursuing an interest in farming or ranching.
The population of U.S. agriculture is poised to make a dramatic change:
- Half of all current farmers are likely to retire in the next decade
- U.S. farmers over age 55 control more than half the country's farmland
- The number of entry-level farmers has fallen by 30 percent since 1987
- New farmers make up only 10 percent of farmers and ranchers
New farmers have different needs than established farmers and ranchers. Beginning farmers often lack the capital and the scale of operation required to make profits with the high-cost technologies and production systems that are the focus of many research and education programs.
Returning veterans can be new farmers, too. Nearly half of the Iraq & Afghanistan veterans are from rural areas and many would like to start farming and ranching careers. This work can fulfill veterans' sense of service, provide a healing atmosphere to reenter civilian life, and support rural communities in need of young families and economic revitalization. Veterans receive benefits for education or for starting farms and businesses. Our Veteran Farmers Project and other information for beginners below can help answer questions for new veteran farmers.
Many Center programs address the unique needs of new farmers. Navigate through the Beginning Farmer links to learn more about how our work can help you. The Center staff has extensive experience advocating for beginning farmers with policy makers. For example, Traci Bruckner has served on the USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Advisory Committee.
Linking Programs and Land Link
Farmer and rancher linking programsconnect new farmers with retiring landowners. When the new and retiring generation match up, they can work out mutually beneficial arrangements to transfer ownership while maintaining a small farm's legacy and promoting good stewardship.
New Farmer/Rancher Benefits
- gain access to land
- find help with financing
- learn from experienced landowners
Landowner Benefits
- ensure the continuity of a farm's operation and legacy
- bring fresh energy and strong hands to work on the farm
- ease transition into retirement
To learn more about how linking programs work, how they benefit those involved, and how they help secure the future of small family farms, click here.
You can view a listing of linking programs throughout the country and the world.
The Center for Rural Affairs' Land Link program was the first of the now many programs that help match new farmers with retiring farmers and landowners, helping them to make working arrangements and ownership transfer strategies that benefit both parties. Case studies are also available.
Financing for New Farmers and Linking Landowners
Before seeking outside financing, beginning farmers and established landowners need to do some basic planning.
Financial resources and advice for new farmers:
- Financial picture overview: eight factors to consider before seeking financing
- New Farmer Financing Programs: potential funding sources
- Rural Enterprise Assistance Program: business planning and small business advice
Financial information for land linking and retiring landowners:
- Succession planning questionnaire (pdf): help with retirement planning
- Tax incentive programs: information on Nebraska Beginning Farmer Tax Credit and the NIFA Aggie Bond, tax incentives for landowners who rent or lend to beginners
- Estate Tax Planning Tools: retirement planning support for older farmers
Other financial support for land linking:
- NebraskaBeginningFarmer.org: access to financial resources for Nebraskans in agriculture
Successful Strategies for Beginners
The Center offers strategies to help family farmers and ranchers succeed:
- High Value Markets Information: information on using new production systems with environmental benefits to capture a larger share of the consumer food dollar; resources and grants to help reach high value markets
- Advice for beginners (pdf): series of articles on successful strategies including substituting management and skill for debt while integrating livestock systems with crops to fully use farm resources
- Additional programs and resources for new farmers
Contact Wyatt Fraas, email@example.com or 402.254.6893 for more information.


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E.P.O.S. is the information centre for your whole business. E.P.O.S. is a modular software system which has been developed and optimised especially for the crane and work platform industry, oversize transport as well as the tow truck and rescue industry.
With E.P.O.S. you keep track of the order process from quotes to scheduling to order confirmation including invoicing, late notices and statistics. You have constant access to all data from current and past orders. This will reduce the daily work load, to have more time to concentrate on customer care and give the best service.
The fleet management interface connects E.P.O.S. to the WEBFLEET and TomTom devices to send orders, status messages and driving times from the DTCO.
Development of business software – For more than 20 years Matusch GmbH have been developing and installing E.P.O.S. – the equipment, planning and organisation system.


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Wheelchair Rugby was developed in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1976, as a quadriplegic equivalent to wheelchair basketball.
Wheelchair rugby is an intense, physical team sport for male and female athletes with quadriplegia (tetraplegia).
The sport was originally called "Murderball" due to the aggressive nature of the game. It is a contact sport where collisions between wheelchairs form a major part of the game.
Each team has four players on court and the aim is to score by carrying the ball across the goal line.
Australia is currently ranked no. 1 in the world by the International Rugby Federation.


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18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
ATLANTA (AP) -- Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.
Atlanta Fire Rescue Department spokeswoman Janet Ward says the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Friday. She says it's not immediately clear what caused the accident.
Ward says there were 18 people on the bus at the time of the accident. Nine were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, including one who was in critical condition. The other nine were taken to Atlanta Medical Center.
Ward says the bus served Hampton Inn, Fairfield Inn and Hilton hotels and was headed to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport.
Overhead shots from WSB-TV show the shuttle ran into the left side of the trailer that was stretched across the road.


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Developing an embedded system is hard work. Reliability is essential; indeed, embedded software may control a safety- or security-critical system where an error can have catastrophic consequences. New requirements will almost surely pop up, so the software must be maintain- able. Real-time constraints and memory limitations make time and space predictability and run-time performance important. Many embedded systems comprise activities that are performed concurrently, either with actual parallelism or through multiplexing on a single processor. And most deal at some point with hardware-specific details like interrupt handling and data layout.
To meet those demands, a programming language needs high-level features that support sound software engineering and provide the necessary generality, but without sacrificing run-time performance. Such a language must also provide low-level mechanisms that are more typically found in assembly language programming.
Ada was designed to satisfy these sometimes-conflicting requirements, and recent enhancements in the new Ada 2005 standard have improved it. Ada makes the embedded-system developer's job more manageable, and it can be a better development choice than C, C++ or Java.
Ada was designed from the start to promote reliability and maintainability, with features that emphasize readability over writability and that detect errors early. Many checks are performed by the compiler--for example, to ensure that the uses of a data object are consistent with its type. Errors that are not detectable at compile time--such as an out-of-bounds index (also known as buffer overrun)--are caught at run-time through compiler-generated checks. Those checks can often be eliminated automatically through compiler optimizations or, if the programmer has verified that they will not fail, manually through specific directives.
Ada's emphasis on readability and reliability is in contrast with the C family of languages, including C++. Java detects buffer overrun errors, but its weakly typed primitive type facility allows data misuse errors that would be caught in Ada. And unlike both Java and the C-based languages, Ada allows programmers to specify a constrained range for a scalar variable (for example, integers in the range 0 through 100), which aids both readability and reliability.
The evolution of programming languages has been accompanied by two major development approaches: procedural programming, in which a system's architecture is dictated by the kinds of processing that must be performed, and object-oriented programming, in which a system's architecture is dictated by the kinds of entities that must be processed and their relationships. Some embedded systems can be modeled through a procedural-programming ap- proach; others may best be captured through object orientation in order to facilitate enhancements and maintenance.
Ada, like C++, can be used for both procedural and object-oriented programming. C, by contrast, lacks object orientation, and purely procedural programming in Java is rather clumsy.
Concurrent programming is intrinsically more difficult than sequential programming. Testing is complicated, since there are many more possible control paths and since new sorts of errors can arise, such as race conditions, deadlock and accessing a data object while it is being modified.


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Burnt Offerings For July 23: Enter The Caveman
First of all, my apologies for missing last week's Burnt Offerings. The column got swallowed up by the chaos that is San Diego Comic-Con. At this point, the event has turned into a giant black hole centered smack dab in the middle of July that consumes everything else in its wake.
Of course, I was down there to participate in The Bits' annual Blu-ray Producers panel and, as usual, it was a fine discussion with some of the sharpest talents in the industry. Although they weren't there as panelists, the team from Warner Archive was nice enough to attend in the audience and they confirmed that Peter Weir's Fearless will indeed be one of their next Blu-ray titles. The movie features one of Jeff Bridges' very best performances and if you like Bridges as much as we do, you know that's high praise indeed. Keep your eyes peeled for an official announcement of this highly-anticipated title soon.
- Adam Jahnke, Bluray Producers 2013, ComicCon
- Captain Caveman, Teen Angels, The Beasts are on the Streets, Hildegard Withers Mystery Collection, Mitchell, Hurricane Smith, Fearless
- Sweet Revenge, Three Faces East, The White Dawn
- Fire in the Sky, The Big Bus, Stuart Saves His Family, The Beautician and the Beast, Wife Wanted, Going Hollywood, Kilroy Was Here, No Time for Comedy, Lost Angel


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Oh the tension. 2-0 up at half-time. Visions of last-day drama and an eleventh-hour escape floating tantilisingly before my eyes. Then, grim reality. A second-half collapse and the prize is snatched away once more. So, this is what it must be like to be an Arsenal fan.
I know that they say misery loves company, but it's not really any consolation. Yes, my beloved West Ham have been relegated from the Premiership.
In an effort to rouse myself from the resultant depression, I decided to have a look at addressing one of those minor annoyances that I'm always intending to get around to but somehow never quite do. In this case, it's how to get confirmation that my Oracle XE database has started before trying to connect to it ( and that it's shut down before I turn off my computer). Continue reading


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Announced at CES, the GPS-enabled EX-10HG from Casio has been a bit of a mystery so far, but has just been given full launch details, with the price expected to be in the region of $400 when it hits in October.
That's a good 10-month long wait, and it's not like the EX-10HG is the first camera with geotagging—though Casio uses three-axis accelerometers and an orientation sensor for gauging the correct GPS position, which can sometimes become unclear when indoors. This 12.1-megapixel model has a 10x zoom lens and records video at 720p, so it's not like it's just a basic point and shoot with a GPS sensor rammed in as an afterthought.
Alternatively, the Eye-Fi Geo SD card adds geotagging to your photos, and doesn't have a 10-month wait. [Photography Bay via Gadget Venue via Geeky-Gadgets
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